Dating and women’s weight

Ladies, do you lie to your partner about your weight? According to a recent study mentioned in Glamour Magazine, 59 percent of women who date online underreport their weight by an average of eight pounds.

This doesn’t surprise me. When the conversation of weight came up at work one day, my colleague insisted I was lying- to make myself heavier.

“That’s 25 pounds more than my wife and she’s pretty tall,” he said. (to clarify, this comparison comes from the fact I am 6′ tall and his wife is maybe four inches shorter, which still makes her above average).

No, I insisted, I really did weigh that much – it’s just that his wife, and so many other women, lie about their weight so it throws off the scale, so to speak.

I look at it this way: weight is a number, a number that doesn’t mean a whole lot when 1. muscle weighs more than fat. 2. some people are built more densely than others and 3. your BMI (height to weight comparison) and body measurements say a lot more about your physical shape than a number on the scale. I’ve met women whose bodies look the same, who wear the same size clothing yet they had a 20 pound difference when they got on the scale.

If I were a man I’d wonder if a woman lied about her weight, what other numbers is she “reworking?” And, girls, if a guy is going to judge/not want to date you based on the digits on the scale, then is that really someone you want to be with?